Will Ted Cruz leave the GOP fat, drunk and pregnant?

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Jul 23, 2013 at 6:11 PMJul 23, 2013 at 11:18 PM

Jay Bookman offer THIS SNARKY TAKE on the possibility that Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas will become the Republican presidential nominee in 2016:

For a quarter century now, the Republican Party has suppressed its own instincts, refusing to nominate candidates who dared to give full voice to the sentiments of its base, refusing to surrender to that temptation. The result has been a series of lackluster nominees — Bush, Dole, Bush, McCain, Romney — that time and again left the party faithful disappointed in themselves for compromising.

Ted Cruz, on the other hand, is their giant box of Godiva chocolates ...

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Pat Cunningham

Jay Bookman offer THIS SNARKY TAKE on the possibility that Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas will become the Republican presidential nominee in 2016:

For a quarter century now, the Republican Party has suppressed its own instincts, refusing to nominate candidates who dared to give full voice to the sentiments of its base, refusing to surrender to that temptation. The result has been a series of lackluster nominees — Bush, Dole, Bush, McCain, Romney — that time and again left the party faithful disappointed in themselves for compromising.

Ted Cruz, on the other hand, is their giant box of Godiva chocolates ...